"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain." I& #39;ll count my gender equality chickens when I see them hatching.
I don& #39;t like to nitpick on linguistic correctness, but I fear the ungrammatical "Conversations on Women Development", which also skilfully avoids any nomenclature pertaining to decades of the global women& #39;s movement, is a harbinger of things to come.
Some items we& #39;d see if this isn& #39;t grrl power lipstick on same old pig:

- End family structure as condition for public housing
- End discriminatory criteria for family migration
- Strong labour rights for all including domestic workers
- Welfare benefits support unpaid work
- Enforceable anti-discrimination duties
- Comprehensive sex education based on respecting individual autonomy
- Rights-based, not law-and-order, approach to sex workers
- LGBT rights

The list goes on.
A few more women on corporate boards, a little more flexi-work & noisy saber-rattling at most obviously egregious cases of sexual violence--

--isn& #39;t equivalent to embedding equal rights, regardless of gender, in society.
I& #39;m not very optimistic.

But I would love to be wrong, PAP government. Prove me wrong.
I& #39;m trying not to go on & on & on about this (some of you may recall it was once my job to do just that)

But it& #39;s also quite irritating that Shanmugam& #39;s two e.g.s of discrimination are scenes in Yes Minister, Asterisk & Obelisk.

Fiction.

Like no real example is worth citing.
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